Transfer and Visiting Students

Application Requirements

The most successful transfer students have high school and college transcripts both with strong outcomes in a rigorous curriculum. To strengthen your profile as a transfer and ensure that you will be more competitive in our applicant pool, we recommend selecting courses in college that might be transferable to a liberal arts and sciences college like Barnard. It is also important that you take care in thinking through your answers to both the personal statement on the common application and the required writing supplement.

Request that official transcripts of all college work be sent to Barnard College. If you have attended several colleges, official transcripts must be mailed from each college.

Submit one Common Application College Report form to the registrar's or dean's office at the college in which you are currently enrolled. This person must have access to your overall academic record.

Submit one Common Application Academic Evaluator recommendation form to a professor in whose class you have been enrolled within the last year.

Use the Common Application Mid-Term Report Form to submit grades from each instructor for all college courses in progress.

If one instructor must delay his or her grade, use a second copy of the form and submit those grades already earned immediately; send additional grades when they become available.

If your school is on a quarter or trimester system, please submit the grades you received for the most recent term.

If you are not currently attending college, you do not need to submit this form.

Please do not submit Mid-Semester/Quarter reports until you have handed in enough coursework for professors to assess your work. If reports are submitted in late February or early March (on a semester system), we may contact you for updated grades later in the semester.

Mid-Term Reports are due November 15th for students applying for January enrollment and April 15th for September enrollment.

For Transfer Applicants Only: Request that an official final high school transcript or official GED results be sent to Barnard College. (Visiting Students are not required to provide a final high school transcript).

For Transfer Applicants Only: Submit official results of the College Board SAT or the ACT Assessment by the application deadline. SAT or ACT scores are required for all transfer applicants regardless of the number of credits earned, years since high school, or if the applicant has not taken a test previously. The College Board code number for Barnard is 2038.The ACT code number for Barnard is 2718. Exemptions will not be made for this transfer application requirement.

For Transfer Applicants Only: (Optional) Submit the Secondary School Final Report form to your secondary school college counselor or principal.

For Transfer Applicants Only: Submit course catalogue/bulletin descriptions for courses from all colleges in which you have been enrolled. Courses should be clearly marked and include full course descriptions. Clear photocopies of course descriptions are acceptable, but must include the appropriate pages listing graduation requirements. If your course catalogue is online, copy and paste course descriptions from your school's online course catalog into a word document. Include your name and date of birth on each page to ensure we receive all pages and send to transfer@barnard.edu. Failure to submit course descriptions will delay the review of your application.

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Deadlines for Transfer and Visiting Students

Entrance in January (Spring Term)Deadline:November 1Notification: Beginning December 1

Entrance in September (Fall Term)Deadline:March 15Notification: By the middle of May